Clothing bag



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CLOTHING BAG I Filed July 17, 1957 V a 3/ f 21 x Patented May 3, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

My present invention relates to clothing bags made of fabric, and particularly to the type which depends from a hook suspended frame.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a novel and improved clothing bag of the class mentioned which retains its. full box form while its closure component is in open position, so that the interior of the bag is entirely visible and freely accessible.

Another object hereof is to provide a novel and improved depending clothing bag made of fabric, which shall have the attributes as are substantially afforded by boxes or wardrobes made of rigid material, that is its interior is wholly and freely accessible when its closure component is moved to open position, and its shape remains undistorted.

A further object of this invention is to provide a novel depending garment bag or box made of fabric, of improved construction, having a member which serves as a dust shield when the bag is closed, and as a hold-down for coat hangers or other articles when the bag is open.

Another object hereof, is to provide a garment bag or box of improved construction which is cheap to manufacture, which can be compactly folded when not in use, and which affords the convenience of a rigid wardrobe.

Other objects will become manifest as this disclosure proceeds.

In the drawing, forming part of this application, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a clothing bag or box embodying this invention, shown in closed condition.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing same in open condition.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the frame from which the bag and its swingable door or closure component depends.

Fig. l is a modified form of such frame for a clothing bag or box made in accordance with the teachings of this invention, provided with a pair of doors.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of such a clothing bag employing the frame of Fig. 4.

In the drawing, the numeral I51 designates a wire frame, the perimeter of which is identical with the perimeter of the ceiling component I6, of the fabric bag or box I'I, having a vertical opening, which box is provided with a door component I8, swingable along the vertical line I9, which is the junction of said door component with the wall 20. The side of the frame I5, which is at the opening of the box, is provided at one end with an eyelet or socket 2I, adapted to receive and frictionally engage the hook or prong 22 of an arm 23, pivoted at 24. The ceiling element I6 of the bag I1 is mounted onto the frame I5, so that said bag shall depend from the frame, and the top edge of the door member I8, is mounted onto the swingable arm 23, so that said door member shall depend therefrom. It is evident that when the door I8 shuts the box I1, 10 prong 22 will be engaged in socket 2|. When the door is open, that is, when arm 23 is swung about pivot 24, the fabric door I8, will hang in substantially true vertical plane, thus permitting full and free access to the interior of the box structure I I. A waved wire element 25, which spans the frame I5 immediately beneath the ceiling I 6', is. adapted to have hung thereon coat hangers carrying garments. At the mid-point of said element 25, is rotatably mounted the tubular element 26, which has no motion longitudinally with respect to the element 25, and there radially extends from said element 26, a hook 21 which is adapted to extend upwardly exterior the ceiling of the box I! through an eyelet 28. Such hook serves to suspend the entire structure, and may be swung to lie as at 21, when the whole structure is to be folded compactly.

At the free end of the door I8, is a flap 2!! provided with a series of snaps 30, or other suitable means for engagement with their counter-parts 2|.

Horizontally along the top edge of the box I1, is hingedly secured a slightly weighted flap member 32 which is adapted to lie over the upper part of the door I8 when the box structure I! is in closed condition, to serve as a dust guard, and is further adapted to be swung over, to lie on top of the ceiling member I6, when the box structure is to be opened, in which latter position, member 32, may be used to hold down coat hangers or other articles of which one may want to relieve himself, while clothes are to be taken or placed into the box structure I'I. It is evident that the construction above described is adaptable to wardrobe structures'having a pair of doors as illustrated in Fig. 5.

In particular, it is to be noted that the door components I8, never hang in the users way, or fall draped across the box opening, or is the shape of the box ever distorted when it is desired to have access into its interior. The door component I8, regardless of the position of the arm 23, from which it depends, always hangs vertically, thus effecting a condition only met with in rigid wardrobe constructions.

This invention is capable of numerous forms and various applications without departing from the essential features herein disclosed. It is therefore intended and desired that the specific embodiments shown herein shall be deemed illustrative and not restrictive, and that the patent shall cover whatever features of patentable novelty exist in the invention disclosed; reference being bad to the following claims rather than to the specific description herein to indicate the scope of this invention.

I claim:

1. In an article of the character described, a fabric box having a vertical fabric door, a sub-- stantially horizontal frame provided with a hook; said box depending from the frame with its ceiling in extended condition and the hook extending 20 exterior said ceiling of the box whereby the frame may be suspended, and an arm pivotally secured on a substantially vertical axis at the hinge line of the door; said door depending from said arm, whereby at any position of the arm with respect to the frame, the door will remain vertical.

2. An article as in claim 1, including means to hold the frame and the free end of the arm in removable engagement.

3. An article as in claim 1, wherein the frame and the free end of the arm are provided, one with a prong and the other with a socket adapted to receive and frictionally engage said prong, whereby the free end of the arm and frame are maintained in removable engagement.

4. An article as in claim 1, including a substantially rigid flap horizontally hingedly secured along the edge of the ceiling of the box whereby said flap may hang vertically against the exterior upper portion of the door, or lie horizontal atop the ceiling'of the box.

WILLIAM GERSTEN. 

